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Kagoshima - The Japanese Meteorological Agency said Saturday that Mount Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture is showing signs of increased volcanic activity, and residents should be prepared to evacuate. The volcano is 31 miles from the restarted Sendai nuclear plant. Mount Sakurajima, 990 kilometers south-west of Tokyo, is one of Japan's most active volcanoes, erupting almost constantly. Officials are saying a larger eruption than normal is expected, according to the Japan Times. The warning alert was raised to its second highest level Saturday morning after meteorologists began picking up increasing seismic activity. The volcano sits just off the coast of Kagoshima,...

The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan released a preliminary calculation Monday saying that the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had been releasing up to 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials per hour at some point after a massive quake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan on March 11.The disclosure prompted the government to consider raising the accident's severity level to 7, the worst on an international scale, from the current 5, government sources said. The level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale has only been applied to the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe. The current provisional evaluation of 5 is at the...

OSAKA, Japan (AFP) – A shallow 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit off the northeast coast of Japan on Monday, the US Geological Survey said. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a 50-centimetre (18 inch) tsunami warning for the Pacific coast of Miyagi prefecture, which was devastated by the huge earthquake and tsunami that hit on March 11.

TOKYO, March 28 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 jolted northeastern Japan on Monday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The agency issued a tsunami warning following the 7:24 a.m. quake.

A magnitude-6.5 earthquake shook eastern Japan off the quake-ravaged coast on Monday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, prompting Japan to issue a tsunami alert. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, but the Japan Meteorological Agency announced that a tsunami of up to 1.6 feet (a half meter) may wash into Miyagi Prefecture.

NEI has added a new graphic to its website: Emergency Presparedness: Protecting the Public and Environment.UPDATE AS OF 6:30 P.M. EDT, MONDAY, MARCH 21: Japan's NHK broadcasting network reported that Tokyo Electric Power Co. confirmed that the March 11 earthquake and tsunami were beyond the Fukushima Daiichi plant's design standards. TEPCO believes the tsunami that inundated the Fukushima Daiichi site was 14 meters high, the network said. The design basis tsunami for the site was 5.7 meters, and the reactors and backup power sources were located 10 to 13 meters above sea level. The company reported that the maximum earthquake...

As expected, Sendai 89ers players, coaches and team staff left Sendai early Friday afternoon for a road trip to face the host and Eastern Conference rival Niigata Albirex BB. Unforeseen challenge: Sendai 89ers center Chris Holm (54) and his team face a difficult time following Friday's massive earthquake in Tohoku. YOSHIAKI MIURA PHOTO The games were called off, however, along with the rest of the bj-league's six other series this weekend, in the aftermath of Friday's devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sendai that struck at 2:46 p.m. J. League matches, Nippon Professional Baseball exhibition games and other sporting...

Just reported large aftershock, 7.2 about, around sendai area again. Earthquake in its own right.

According to the Kyodo News Agency, via BBC, the official missing persons tally is around 88,000. It's well known that a lot of people are simply stranded in the cities, including Tokyo, and in many cases the people are probaby safe. It's not clear how they're included in the number. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/japan-missing-people-2011-3#ixzz1GKAARmB5

Between 200-300 bodies wash up on Sendai beach, Japan Reuters - 03/11/2011 | Tokyo | Over two hundred bodies which have turned up dead on the beach in Sendai, Japan, appear to have drowned. The number of people missing is estimated at 349 and rising. The biggest earthquake on record to hit Japan rocked its northeast coast on Friday, triggering a 10-metre tsunami that killed hundreds of people and swept away everything in its path. Thousands of residents near a nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, were told to evacuate as a precaution after the 8.9 magnitude quake,...

Tsuanmi warning issued.